The Vexing Problem of Persistent Disparities in Kidney Transplant Care.

1Department of Population Health, Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 2Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 3Division of Data-Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M), Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 4Departments of Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management, and Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 5Department of Surgery/Transplantation, Johns Hopkins School Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Correspondence: Dr. Tanjala S. Purnell, Departments of Epidemiology and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, 2024 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205. Email: tpurnel1@jhmi.@edu Published online ahead of print. Publication date available at www.cjasn.org. See related article, “The ASCENT Intervention to Improve Access and Reduce Racial Inequalities in Kidney Waitlisting: A Randomized, Effectiveness-Implementation Trial,” on pages 374–382.